Volunteers needed for shelter

Once remodeled, former nursing home will house homeless veterans

10:43 PM,
Feb. 2, 2014

Veterans groups have teamed up with Home Depot to help a remodel a former nursing and bring it up to code to house homeless vets.Funding and volunteer labor will be needed in order to open the 26,500-square-foot facility. The Northeast Louisiana Veterans Association hopes the shelter can be opened this year.

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Efforts to remodel a former Bastrop nursing home into a shelter for displaced veterans will pick up in the spring, and local veterans say they need more volunteers to help with the cause.

In April, the Northeast Louisiana Veterans Association challenged the community to help raise funds to establish a shelter. In August, the group unveiled the facility which was donated by Bishop Johnston of Monroe. His family purchased the abandoned nursing home years ago to use as a climate-controlled warehouse.

Veterans groups have teamed up with Home Depot to help remodel the facility and bring it up to ...